The Breede Valley Municipality has embarked on a debt collection drive aimed at improving the Municipality’s cash flow by targeting those clients who are not indigent, but neglect to pay their accounts on time.
The drive mainly focused on the top 500 clients whose accounts with the Municipality are in arrears. These top 500 accounts collectively owed the municipality R28 425 845 in arrears. On 30 April the amount in arrears had dropped to R24 398 512. The drop of R 4 027 333 was achieved within a space of 3 weeks.
During the drive, the municipality intensified cutting the electricity supply to clients with conventional meters. As a result 50 clients paid over one million rand in outstanding debt
The drive aims to ensure a culture of payment is instilled in the Breede Valley. It is also aimed at ensuring that the Municipality’s Debt Collection and Credit Control Policy is implemented at all times by bringing together different resources and expertise available in the Municipality.
The Municipality will certainly consider taking legal action against clients who, after exhausting all internal debt collection processes, still do not pay their accounts.
Clients who know that their accounts are in arrears are urged to visit the Municipality’s Debt collection and credit control sections to make suitable arrangements in order to avoid any inconvenience. Clients are also urged to ensure that they adhere to the due dates as indicated on their accounts as failure to do so will lead to the implementation of the credit control policy across the board.